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rupert murdoch was just as right wing then as he is now. but his right-wing tabloid "the sun," which is as dominant in british tabloid media as fox news is anywhere cable news, tony blair convinced the conservative rupert murdoch to have the conservative "sun" tabloid get behind the blair candidacy. this right-wing paper, "the sun," endorsed the labour party and tony blair. so after nearly two decades of the labour party in exile, tony blair got rupert murdoch's backing. that helped him get elected prime minister. labour got to be in charge of briblt for the next decade. george w. bush got a new poodle. and we all got the iraq war. whatever you think of what tony blair did with his time in power, his rise to power was skilled, very skilled. and that skill was manifest in part with his triumph in the murdoch primary. josh marshall at the website talking points memos has been writing about this. he wrote about it this past summer and again today. the idea of the murdoch primary everybody talked about it and it's the real thing. you have to wi
rupert murdoch was just as right wing then as he is now. but his right-wing tabloid "the sun," which is as dominant in british tabloid media as fox news is anywhere cable news, tony blair convinced the conservative rupert murdoch to have the conservative "sun" tabloid get behind the blair candidacy. this right-wing paper, "the sun," endorsed the labour party and tony blair. so after nearly two decades of the labour party in exile, tony blair got rupert murdoch's...
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of counterfeiting but also harbors criminals like rupert murdoch who's involved in phone hacking people emulate murdoch they want to be like lord murdoch so they phone hack so google says you know what if murdoch gets away with phone hacking then we should be able to get away with phone hacking so they engage in phone hacking they cut their books and wall street takes them public they pocket billions of dollars and the i.p.o. is left to rot in people's budget accounts trickle down fraud as we've covered here before and william k. black said that that is the one that said that the fraud happens at the top and once you have a corrupt upper class that gets away with these crimes it trickles down and you have a corrupt society and that's how it happens one day the u.k. could look like pakistan or india in terms of the levels of corruption i know it's great in india they government issue is fake money that people can use to pay off bribes without losing face maybe that's the future for well i think dollars will be used but the u.k. pound can be used to make money use it to pay off well speak
of counterfeiting but also harbors criminals like rupert murdoch who's involved in phone hacking people emulate murdoch they want to be like lord murdoch so they phone hack so google says you know what if murdoch gets away with phone hacking then we should be able to get away with phone hacking so they engage in phone hacking they cut their books and wall street takes them public they pocket billions of dollars and the i.p.o. is left to rot in people's budget accounts trickle down fraud as...
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right it doesn't matter what voters want to matter is what billionaire rupert murdoch wants is anyone still doubt that the republican primary is really the murdoch. and the very very ugly rick perry with governor good hair is campaign now completely derailed kerry cut a new political ad in iowa trying to remake himself as the ultimate culture. are not ashamed to admit that i'm a christian you don't need to be in the pew every sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military when our kids can't open would celebrate christmas. is actually that's right right that's what's really wrong with our country gays in the military in the war on christmas fact is kids can celebrate kids christmas and they can pray in school maybe the guy who was executed more people than any other governor in the modern history shouldn't be touting his moral convictions and all the hours he spends in church and he certainly shouldn't be making things up that's very very. after the break internets daily take i explain why politicians are not leaders never have b
right it doesn't matter what voters want to matter is what billionaire rupert murdoch wants is anyone still doubt that the republican primary is really the murdoch. and the very very ugly rick perry with governor good hair is campaign now completely derailed kerry cut a new political ad in iowa trying to remake himself as the ultimate culture. are not ashamed to admit that i'm a christian you don't need to be in the pew every sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays...
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we begin with a new development in the illegal phone hacking case against rupert murdoch's "news of the world" tabloid. a journalist from the now defunct paper has been arrested in london in connection with fresh allegations of phone hacking. the 41-year-old was jailed back in 2007 also on phone hacking charges. >>> there's a new acting chief today at the federal aviation administration. deputy administrator michael huerta. this after the top official stepped down. randy babbitt resigned tuesday after being arrested over the weekend on drunk driving charges. local officials did not disclose the results of his blood alcohol test. >>> new information about the u.s. drone that went down in iran over the weekend. the unmanned aircraft was on a cia mission and was part of a special fleet of stealth drones that have spied on iran for years from an afghanistan air base. iran claims it shot down that plane after it was found some 140 miles deep into that country's airspace. >>> a sentence is expected this morning for disgraced illinois governor rod blagojevich. the impeached governor is expecte
we begin with a new development in the illegal phone hacking case against rupert murdoch's "news of the world" tabloid. a journalist from the now defunct paper has been arrested in london in connection with fresh allegations of phone hacking. the 41-year-old was jailed back in 2007 also on phone hacking charges. >>> there's a new acting chief today at the federal aviation administration. deputy administrator michael huerta. this after the top official stepped down. randy...
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murdoch's nowty funk "news of the world". >> i would say they're aware of 5% of what journalists are up to. >> reporter: morgan testified via a video link from los angeles. he denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking. >> have you listened to recordings of what you knew to be illegally obtained voice mail messages? >> i do not believe so, no. >> well, you either did or you didn't. it isn't a question of belief. >> reporter: today a former business reporter for "the daily mirror" who went to jail for insider trading says hacking regularly took place while morgan was editor. >> i would say that it was very unlikely that he didn't know that it was going on, because as i've said, he was -- there wasn't very much he didn't know about. >> reporter: during his testimony, morgan was repeatedly asked how he heard a phone message paul mccartney left for his then wife heather mills as their marriage was falling apart. >> well, i can't discuss where i was played that tape or who played it, because to do so would be to compromise a source. >> reporter: there were moments when the cnn anchor a
murdoch's nowty funk "news of the world". >> i would say they're aware of 5% of what journalists are up to. >> reporter: morgan testified via a video link from los angeles. he denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking. >> have you listened to recordings of what you knew to be illegally obtained voice mail messages? >> i do not believe so, no. >> well, you either did or you didn't. it isn't a question of belief. >> reporter: today a former...
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murdoch's nowty funk "news of the world". >> i would say they're aware of 5% of what journalists are up to. >> reporter: morgan testified via a video link from los angeles. he denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking. >> have you listened to recordings of what you knew to be illegally obtained voice mail messages? >> i do not believe so, no. >> well, you either did or you didn't. it isn't a question of belief. >> reporter: today a former business reporter for "the daily mirror" who went to jail for insider trading says hacking regularly took place while morgan was editor. >> i would say that it was very unlikely that he didn't know that it was going on, because as i've said, he was -- there wasn't very much he didn't know about. >> reporter: during his testimony, morgan was repeatedly asked how he heard a phone message paul mccartney left for his then wife heather mills as their marriage was falling apart. >> well, i can't discuss where i was played that tape or who played it, because to do so would be to compromise a source. >> reporter: there were moments when the cnn anchor a
murdoch's nowty funk "news of the world". >> i would say they're aware of 5% of what journalists are up to. >> reporter: morgan testified via a video link from los angeles. he denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking. >> have you listened to recordings of what you knew to be illegally obtained voice mail messages? >> i do not believe so, no. >> well, you either did or you didn't. it isn't a question of belief. >> reporter: today a former...